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Doug Valentine authored
The Phoenix Program documented
“And it's like I found that like between those three, you get like a great view of how these operations and deep state things work. So, Hugo. There's this book called Predatory States by J.P. McSherry. If people haven't read, definitely read…”
▶ Operation Gladio with guest Hugo Turner Ukraine background @ 1:52:58
Doug Valentine book_quoted
Pisces Moon: The Dark Art of Empire book_quoted
“perspective in this. Is Cousin It here yet? Yes, she did go to. There she is. All right. Let me go ahead and bring her up and we'll get started. All right. So, and I'm going to give you an example because it's right at the beginning of this…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program and beyond @ 6:23
Doug Valentine spied_on
CIA host_asserted
“Who I have all the admiration for in the world as far as her research skills goes the same way that I'm fascinated with Doug Valentine in his research of the CIA and Operation Phoenix and everything to do with the stuff that he writes about…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13 @ 1:57:04
Doug Valentine spied_on
Phoenix Program host_asserted
“Who I have all the admiration for in the world as far as her research skills goes the same way that I'm fascinated with Doug Valentine in his research of the CIA and Operation Phoenix and everything to do with the stuff that he writes about…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner- Strange Tales of the Parapolitical Part 13 @ 1:57:04
Doug Valentine founded
The Phoenix Program host_asserted
“I have four of Doug Valentine's books that I've been using as references. The one I do not have is the Phoenix program. And I had been using the one on archive.org when we started this section on Vietnam, just to check.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program @ 0:32
William Colby introduced
Doug Valentine book_quoted
“Scotton was a very outgoing, charismatic person, and he had basically traveled all over Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, all those things. And let's see, when Doug Valentine got to meet this guy, Scotton, he was introduced to him by William Colby.…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Vietnam Phoenix Program Part (4) @ 1:08:57
Doug Valentine exposed
CIA caller_asserted
“had helped him arrange initially. He was originally sort of this guy whose dad was in World War II. He had written a book on World War II. Colby thought that he was a terrific guy to kind of talk about the CIA. And he basically got all thes…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 1:14:31
Doug Valentine exposed
Vietnam book_quoted
“As a matter of fact, there is a famous jewelry store that's right around the corner from the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam in Saigon slash Ho Chi Minh. And it comes up in a lot of stories. As a matter of fact, it came up twice in Doug Valentine's…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Italy Part 4 @ 1:31:29
Doug Valentine exposed
CIA caller_asserted
“foiled himself. And there's a 1986 HR document inside of the CIA where there's this personnel officer warning everyone that Doug Valentine has accumulated an alarming amount of information on the Central Intelligence Agency. These aren't Do…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 1:14:59
William Colby recruited
Doug Valentine caller_asserted
“had helped him arrange initially. He was originally sort of this guy whose dad was in World War II. He had written a book on World War II. Colby thought that he was a terrific guy to kind of talk about the CIA. And he basically got all thes…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Mafia, CIA &George Bush Part 12 @ 1:14:31
Doug Valentine exposed
Vietnam book_quoted
“I think that was in, I'll have to get that and bring it. I think it was in Doug Valentine's book. He, at the very end of that TDY book, listed like seven different industries and companies associated with it in Vietnam that they were protec…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Medusa File by Craig Roberts Part 7 @ 1:09:57
Doug Valentine member_of
Operation Gladio host_asserted
“an excellent researcher and an excellent, he doesn't call it Operation Gladio. I don't know that he knows that the entire thing is Operation Gladio, but he's a specialist in Southeast Asia. And I will quote him very often when we get to tha…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Reagan’s complicity; Morocco-Seychelles-Suriname @ 1:12:35
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And all of these, Joseph Farrell, that have written about different historical aspects of this entire program. Doug Valentine, who, you know, you wouldn't be able to have an actual conversation with him because he's a very far leftist. But …
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As a matter of fact, there is a famous jewelry store that's right around the corner from the U.S. Embassy in Vietnam in Saigon slash Ho Chi Minh. And it comes up in a lot of stories. As a matter of fact, it came up twice in Doug Valentine's…
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And I don't have his book out here. I'm kind of moving all my books out to cottage. But Doug Valentine, Doug Valentine.…
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an excellent researcher and an excellent, he doesn't call it Operation Gladio. I don't know that he knows that the entire thing is Operation Gladio, but he's a specialist in Southeast Asia. And I will quote him very often when we get to tha…
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The problem was their actual mission was going into places like Cambodia, which, by the way, was neutral. We weren't even supposed to be there. Lazing targets and having B-52 come bomb those places with these people still in them. So they w…
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But I'm going to fly through this part. There's a guy in the CIA that's part of Phoenix and that Doug Valentine talks to. And his name is Nelson Brickham, B-R-I-C-K-H-A-M. And so he interviews him quite extensively for this book. And what w…
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And so he's kind of put off by the fact that everybody seems so excited about this guy's new approach and it wasn't his idea kind of thing. So he starts poo-pooing the idea that they're going to be doing paperwork as opposed to being out in…
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Bob Wall, W-A-L-L, a paramilitary officer, CIA guy, in one of the provinces said in December 1966, Wall was made deputy to one of the regional commanders by the name of Jack Horgan. Wall recalled when he met Doug Valentine, the author, in t…
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I have four of Doug Valentine's books that I've been using as references. The one I do not have is the Phoenix program. And I had been using the one on archive.org when we started this section on Vietnam, just to check.…
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a couple of days ago and was looking through all of the stuff that I have on the Phoenix program that I've read and Vietnam in general. And I kept coming back to this book and I didn't really want to do the whole book, but because I've read…
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But interacting with him is very caustic. I'll just go ahead and warn you of that. He is a diehard, just short of socialist, if he's not actually a socialist. His name is Douglas Valentine. But having said that, he, for a really weird reaso…
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Absolutely right. And also, you know, you mentioned this guy Douglas Valentine. I happen to kind of know him from a while back on Facebook, Twitter, whatever. And he is, you know, admitted he is like the, he puts the acerb back in the cervi…
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Doug Valentine sat down with a guy that had been part of one of the hit squads and he recounted to him a horrifying story of when Doug asked him, what do you remember about your tour in Vietnam? He told him that it was his last mission that…
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was the point at which many of us realized we were no longer the good guys in white hats defending freedom. We were the assassins. And it says, Doug says that he spent the better part of four years gathering all this information because mos…
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For example, this guy, his name was Elton Manzoni, M-A-N-Z-I-O-N-E. When Doug met him, he was telling Doug they basically erased his entire history of him even being in Vietnam. And in many cases, these people that were on these hit squads …
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trauma I mean because they were all exposed exposed to agent orange and all this other crap how do they do that if it doesn't even the record doesn't even say they were there so that was the problem this guy was having and he ended up havin…
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At least in the good side of this, Doug's father had some of the exact same things happen to him while he was in Vietnam as far as his record being changed and things being altered. So he knew firsthand that this was happening, which led hi…
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vci and what is vci it basically um is a farmer in a field with a hoe and um a grenade in his pocket a deranged subversion using um women and children as a shield question mark or was it a patriot a freedom fighter…
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So they were actually in many cases taken out of Vietnam temporarily and educated in France. They created like military academies and educated them there. So basically they became what Doug refers to as French lackeys. Foreign legionnaires …
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Several of the New Japan Hawaiian Bank branch people came from this organization, the East West Center. So about the CIA-sponsored East West Center, Scott instead in an interview with Doug Valentine, the guy that wrote this book, it was a c…
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Scotton was a very outgoing, charismatic person, and he had basically traveled all over Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, all those things. And let's see, when Doug Valentine got to meet this guy, Scotton, he was introduced to him by William Colby.…
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And it's like I found that like between those three, you get like a great view of how these operations and deep state things work. So, Hugo. There's this book called Predatory States by J.P. McSherry. If people haven't read, definitely read…
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And then we moved to Asia. We spent probably a week and a half on Vietnam. Half of that material came from Doug Valentine's book about the Phoenix program. I'm a very big fan of his material, not his political outlook. But he is an excellen…
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Yeah, Dr. Valentine also has said that, and I've said it too, I'm sure. But yeah, definitely. I just sort of take a more random approach, just sort of like, what am I interested in? And then I study it for way too long or whatever. But it's…
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It's interesting that we're on the opposite sides of the ideological spectrum, but because we've done the same research, we agree on many elements of our analysis of the world situation. But Hugo, that's the same thing that I felt about Dou…
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of the material that we bring, and we love her. I'm not friends with Doug Valentine, but he pissed me off, too, with his, like, he supports Russian Gay, and he was, like, even saying, like, oh, we should stop selling jam cakes. We're never …
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doing the truth justice, because you can research their references and figure out whether they're even just the tone. One of the things he pointed out to me, which I found fascinating, when you read supposed historical events, when people a…
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to not allow yourself to be taken by those words. And Doug Valentine's is a very good example of that because he adamantly hates Trump and somehow managed in a book about the Southeast Asia to read him constantly into the narrative. And whe…
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few things that are written on both sides of the aisle. When we did our Vietnam study in depth, which took, I think, the better part of a week, we read from two different books written by Doug Valentine. He has an ex account. You can go loo…
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the inner workings, because you're never going to have a right person exposing the right. They just don't. You will have the left doing it. And that's why I love Doug Valentine's books. And then vice versa. You have people that are conserva…
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Right wing is not the proper term. Traitors, professional criminals, and drug traffickers. Because they relied on these paramilitary covert operations to traffic the drugs. According to Doug Valentine, whose book we used on the Phoenix prog…
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The tracking down of Che Cabrera by the CIA in 1967 was a classic case of covert intelligence operations using drug trafficking, a Bolivian counter-narcotics unit, and the FBN, which later became the DEA. In the 21st century, American count…
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from every perspective, regardless of what political orientation an author may have been. And that's why I don't avoid reading books that lean one way or the other, because if you don't look at both, you're going to miss. And, you know, Dou…
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So you really do have to broaden your library in reading everything. And you can put in perspective. I mean, at least this guy didn't, you know, go out and like Doug Valentine, God bless his heart, is a Trump hater. And he fails to see that…
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The secret to assessing, you know, a book's credibility is to check the notes and to check the citations and to check the sources. And, you know, as you mentioned, Doug Valentine, the cool thing about him is he posts the taped interviews on…
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they use credible footnotes. He quotes several times McCoy's book, Politics of Heroin, which we've done. He does quote Valentine several times. So that's a great point. You really do, you can't just read stuff with footnotes and not actuall…
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And just to reiterate, one of the most interesting authors that I've come across as far as investigative work is Doug Valentine. But my gosh, his TDS is so freaking out of this world that you really have to have a strong constitution to rea…
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I'm not forming people's opinion. I'm finding material and presenting it for people to form their own opinions. I can tell you what my opinion is, but I want people to have the resources and get a variety of resources. I talked about the bo…
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No, there's a lot of that already out there as far as the CIA coordinating. And if you can tolerate his politics, Doug Valentine has accumulated the most evidence of all of the stuff that you just talked about. His books, he's written like …
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of the author and whether or not they have a particular spin. And as you've seen, when we talked about the Phoenix program with Doug Williams or Doug Valentine's, people do have spins. It doesn't mean you don't read it. You still read it. Y…
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ignore the, and when we did one of Doug Valentine's books, when we were talking about the Phoenix program, you just have to kind of ignore the judgment part of the books and stick to the facts part of the book. Because he traveled all over …
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You know, he traveled over there and interviewed them. He had access to people that we don't have access to. So you have to read their material. It's firsthand accounting of, and they were very honest with him about some of the things that …
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What I didn't realize when we were going through the book was he actually tape recorded the conversations with the CIA agents, and they're posted on archive.org. So if you're reading this stuff in this book and you're saying this is crazy, …
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had helped him arrange initially. He was originally sort of this guy whose dad was in World War II. He had written a book on World War II. Colby thought that he was a terrific guy to kind of talk about the CIA. And he basically got all thes…
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foiled himself. And there's a 1986 HR document inside of the CIA where there's this personnel officer warning everyone that Doug Valentine has accumulated an alarming amount of information on the Central Intelligence Agency. These aren't Do…
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and the agency itself. Yes. And coincidentally, since you brought that up, I will remind everybody that Colby met a very untimely death that supposedly was suicide, that there's no way in hell was suicide. And there's probably a lot of reas…
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Because Doug Valentine was given unprecedented access to CIA and wrote some very interesting stories. And as Illini points out, many of them, a lot of them are posted for people to go back and listen to. He didn't make the shit up. It's out…
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Read Doug Valentine's information. There was a lot of CIA officers that retired in that area. They're still all over there. The banks that were laundering the money, they're still all over there. Obviously, they don't have the BCCI branches…
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I think you'd have to take that with the, I don't, you guys have not, I don't know how many of you've read any of Doug Valentine's stuff, but he was given unprecedented access to CIA agents while they were still CIA agents. And even some of…
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Who I have all the admiration for in the world as far as her research skills goes the same way that I'm fascinated with Doug Valentine in his research of the CIA and Operation Phoenix and everything to do with the stuff that he writes about…
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um good friend douglas valentine you know in when you mention the dea connections to cia i think it's in his second book i don't i can't whether it's strength of the will for strength of the pack where he talks about those 12 you know so-ca…
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According to author and journalist Doug Valentine, who spent a lifetime shedding light on the clandestine alleys of CIA operations, described some of the agency's narco history in Pisces Moon, The Dark Arc of Empire, which I also have read,…
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This book right here, which is in our top five to do. In 1990, even Major General Richard Secord, a major player in the Iran-Contra scandal, acknowledged to Doug Valentine that that was all true. As he said in his intimate fashion, quote, w…
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Secord also served as the chief of CIA air operations from 66 to 68 at Udorn Royal Thai Air Base in Thailand, which is the base I visited. According to Doug Valentine, quote, the pilots Secord managed in Laos, which shares a border with Tha…
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Yeah. And those to me are the best sources. You don't want somebody in the tank, but because you want critical analysis of the material that you're covering. And unfortunately, when you look into this stuff, you've got, you know, obviously …
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All an ICE agent has to do is make a call and the cargo will be cleared through a checkpoint, unquote. Journalist and author Doug Valentine, who by the way, has been DMing me and he's going to send me his most recent book that he just publi…
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In a story he wrote for Counterpunch, quote, by 1977, some 125 former CIA, and he has air quotes over former, had been infiltrated into the DEA at every level of the organization, especially in intelligence units, making everything possible…
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the original plane that crashed in Mexico, was from. So it seems the entire paper trail of connected coincidences lead right back to the CIA. Huh. Doug Valentine, in that article he wrote in Counterpunch, said the following. With Bush's war…
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They're afraid of reporting on the CIA. You can't totally blame them because how many suicide attempts can there be linked back to them on people trying to report on them before people don't want to? I know. That makes me want to ask, and m…
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Okay, let's get this party started. Just a couple of upfront comments before we get into the material today. So I mentioned to you guys last week that author Douglas Valentine had sent me his recent book that he published. It's a very short…
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of the only person that he was allowed to give it to. And so when he gets back to the location after they're exfiltrated, there are a couple of people that are run at him to try to collect that evidence. And he refuses to give it to him. An…
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I think that was in, I'll have to get that and bring it. I think it was in Doug Valentine's book. He, at the very end of that TDY book, listed like seven different industries and companies associated with it in Vietnam that they were protec…
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And I'm convinced we also have similar forces, including CIA, on the ground in Ukraine, and he would be absolutely right. In 1990, the well-known political commentator Morley Safer wrote a review for a book about the Phoenix program by Doug…
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After first describing the Phoenix program as an unseemly liaison between impotent military tactics and money log technology, as well as a monster child with its computer brain and assassin's instinct. That's how Valentine described the pro…